ERIC Number: EJ1137268
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017
Pages: 16
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ISSN: ISSN-0966-9760
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Empowering Infants through Responsive and Intentional Play Activities
Shin, Minsun; Partyka, Thomas
International Journal of Early Years Education, v25 n2 p127-142 2017
This qualitative case study explored how an infant teacher provided meaningful learning experiences for infants through play and the teacher's educational rationale behind these experiences. Findings were based on multiple sources of data, including classroom observations (natural observation and videotaped observation) for approximately 12 weeks and a teacher interview. The findings confirmed that infant play is critical for infant learning and development and portrayed the process through which the infant teacher created play spaces for infants and supported infants' play through both pre-planned, teacher-directed, intentional activities, and child-initiated, emerging play activities. Our study highlighted that the designing of infant play and the learning process needs to be flexible and based on careful observation and reflection in order to meet the rapidly changing needs and interests of a group of infants as well as individual infants.
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Case Studies, Infants, Empowerment, Play, Preschool Teachers, Interviews, Observation, Learning Strategies, Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Video Technology, Activities, Planning, Student Needs, Developmentally Appropriate Practices
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Preschool Education; Early Childhood Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: New Jersey
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